On Monday 11 October 2010 18:41:25 Keith Edmunds wrote:
> Two comments, not meant to sound harsh (but I'm aware that they may do).
>
> Firstly, there's no need to quote an entire thread just to say that you
> have things working now.
>
> Secondly, you can approach Linux from a number of perspectives, one of
> which is to try to understand how it works. That isn't necessarily easy:
> it's a complex system and I maintain that I learn something new about
> Linux every week (and I've worked with it full time for ten years, and
> used it for a lot longer). But if you do want to understand it, I would
> suggest that when you come across a problem such as you had, and you
> receive advice about how to solve it, you should try one thing at a time.
> That will allow you to see what does and does not work (even the 'does not
> work' may teach you something), and it will also allow you to teach others
> when you thank Fred, Bill, Alice and Susan for their advice, and say that
> it turned out to be Susan's idea of doing XXX that fixed it.
>
> Keith
>
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OK I have debated about replying and have decided to do so, but I
don't wish to turn this into a bun fight but I did find your comments rather
grating.
Firstly I will put my hands up and apologise for the full quote, that was a
schoolboy error. I was in a bit of a rush and wanted to thank those that had
taken the time to rply to my request for help. Unfortunately thanking people on
userlist like this one is something I don't do enough of.
In resolving this problem with the help of all those replies I got, some of
which made suggestion which I had forgotten about and when tried\checked the
results helped. I have learnt the following, configure crontab from the command
line, save text file (in this case crontab) at the command line, add folders to
the $PATH. I am a product of the gui era while I understand the power and the
complexity of the cli but I am all for an easy life and if the gui will give me
that then that is where I will live.
So all in all I did learn a lot, but as I said in my thank you post, I am not
sure exactly what I did that resolved the problem. I think it was one, two
maybe even three little things that was stopping it from working properly (like
the file I wanted crontab to run only needed the file name not the .sh on the
end of it), ultimately each replied was another piece in a jigsaw which I was
trying to complete without a picture to refer to. Unfortunately I have not had
a lot of time to resolve the problem hence the time it has taken to resolve a
fairly simple problem.
Linux is complex (but so is any OS), but I have pretty much taught myself to
run, install and resolve problems I come across. My linux usage is a hobby and
while I have been playing with Linux from Suse 6 days it has been my main OS at
home for at least 6 years. I have asked question here and else where and as you
learn something new about linux everyday. But I don't see why you feel the need
to think that I have not learnt anything from the replies I had been given, I
did not continually come back asking what the next step was, I asked question
and learnt from the suggestion I was given and the result I obtained, hence I
resolved my problem, not quickly, but I resolved it
Tim
